Showing results for "Noir" in Historical Fiction

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Moscow, 1937. Captain Korolev, a police investigator, is enjoying a long-overdue visit from his young son, Yuri, when an eminent scientist is shot dead within sight of the Kremlin, and Korolev is ordered to find the killer. It soon emerges that the victim, a man who it appears would stop at nothing to fulfil his ambitions, was engaged in research of great interest to those at the very top ranks of Soviet power.

Berlin 1936 umiddelbart før de Olympiske Lege. Det kræver mere end almindelig god fingerspitzgefühl og stor forsigtighed at være privatdetektiv i en tid, hvor de nazistiske magthavere tager gruopvækkende midler i brug for at nå deres mål. Den hårdkogte privatdetektiv Bernhard Gunther...

Moscow, 1936. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev is asked to investigate. But when he discovers that the victim is an American citizen, the NKVD - the most feared organisation in Russia - becomes involved. Soon, Korolev’s every step is under close scrutiny and one false move will mean exile to the frozen camps of the far north. Committed to uncovering the truth, Korolov enters the realm of the Thieves, who run Moscow’s underworld.

Following a previous investigation, which implicated those at the very top in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself hailed as an example to all. But Korolev lives in an uneasy peace - if it is discovered what his real actions were during the case, he will face deportation to Siberia. Instead, Colonel Rodinov of the NKVD security service asks the detective to look into the suspected suicide of a young woman on a film set in the Ukraine. The feared commissar for State Security, Ezhov, wants the matter looked into.

The Long Firm meets The Big Sleep in this dark thriller set in 1920s Soho. George Harley is a cockney private detective in late 1920s London. While investigating a series of grisly murders he uncovers a trail of hidden clues, linking the crimes to an infamous figure from the past. Convinced that...

In this mesmerizing Hollywood ghost story by national bestselling author Philip Fracassi, some secrets never go out of style… When budding fashion designer Kate Williams finds a box of vintage clothing at her favorite thrift store in Silver Lake, CA she knows it’s perfect inspiration for her...

The second novel in the Piccadilly Noir series, this dark historical thriller sees Cockney private eye George Harley return to the streets of London's Soho, populated by gangsters, wide boys and lowlifes, to investigate a missing cabaret dancer and a child believed stole by his nemesis, the...

1956. Bernie Gunther er på flugt fra sit franske skjul, hvor Erich Mielke og hans gorillaer i det østtyske sikkerhedspoliti, Stasi, har fundet ham. Manden, som Mielke har sat til at jage Bernie, og som stille og roligt skubber ham tættere på Tyskland, er en gammel kollega fra tiden hos...

Voici une histoire singulière dont quelques éléments sont connus avec certitude. En 1323-1324, un jeune aristocrate africain, le Kankan Moussa, roi de Niani, accomplit le pèlerinage à la Mecque avec une suite de huit mille hommes, douze mille selon certains.

1963, France: A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Picardie, followed by gunfire. A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight. A tramp's body is discovered in a burnt out truck. All this occurring after multiple attempts on the President's life. Inspector Lucas Rocco knows there's a connection somewhere, and is recruited by Colonel Saint-Cloud to assist with the President's Security.

Listopad 1327 roku. Do znamienitego opactwa benedyktynów w pólnocnych Wloszech przybywa uczony franciszkanin, Wilhelm z Baskerville, któremu towarzyszy uczen i sekretarz, nowicjusz Adso z Melku. W klasztorze panuje ponury nastrój. Opat zwraca sie do Wilhelma z prosba o pomoc w rozwiklaniu zagadki tajemniczej smierci jednego z mnichów. Sprawa jest naglaca, gdyz za kilka dni w opactwie ma sie odbyc wazna debata teologiczna, w której wezma udzial dostojnicy koscielni, z wielkim inkwizytorem Bernardem Gui na czele.

Chronique du XIXe siècle, ce premier volume nous conduit de Verrières et de ses salons à une capitale de province, entre un maire, des adjoints et des fonctionnaires, dans un monde où les petites intrigues ont de grands effets. Au cœur du récit, un jeune homme d’origine modeste cherche sa place: dialogue avec un maître, ennui, premières négociations et «première expérience de la vie» le mènent des soirées de campagne au séminaire. Lettres anonymes, roi en visite, ciseaux anglais et bas à jour jalonnent son ascension hésitante, entre ambition et scrupule — le Rouge et le Noir.

When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest-disgraced knight turned detective - begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope.

En créant le personnage de Zénon, alchimiste et médecin du XVIe siècle, Marguerite Yourcenar ne raconte pas seulement le destin tragique d'un homme extraordinaire. C'est toute une époque qui revit dans son infinie richesse, comme aussi dans son âcre et brutale réalité ; un monde contrasté où s'affrontent le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, et où pointent déjà les temps modernes, monde dont Zénon est issu, mais dont peu à peu cet homme libre se dégage, et qui pour cette raison même finira par le broyer.

Janvier 1945. Hitler s'enferme dans le Bunker. Pour les Alliés, la guerre est bientôt gagnée. Mais un secret peut encore tout changer… Un mythe sur lequel plane l'ombre du légendaire inventeur Nikola Tesla. Des bases clandestines de Norvège aux mystères occultes du Portugal, Tristan Marcas se lance en quête de la pierre du destin. Et si la clef de la victoire finale venait d'ailleurs ?

Sommer i Berlin 1928. Stemningen i byen er kaotisk, dekadent og desperat. Livet leves i sexklubber, til kabaretter, med slagsmål i gaden, og Weimarrepublikken synger på sidste vers, for jødehadet vokser, og nazismen breder sig. Bernie Gunther har kun været få år ved politiet, men med fire...

'This book is so spectacularly good' Goodreads review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the...

In recent decades, ostensibly to combat the rising tide of criminality in Mumbai’s underworld, the Indian Police Service has carried out many hundreds of extrajudicial assassinations of suspects. Karan, an expert sharpshooter in an elite branch dispensed with dishing out this vigilante justice, has a difficult choice: Should he continue to blindly follow orders from his superiors, regardless of their moral standing, or take matters into his own hands and do what he believes to be right?

I en årrække har den tidligere kriminalkommissær og privatdetektiv Bernie Gunther gemt sig i Cuba, men nu vil han væk fra det job, han modvilligt varetager i den cubanske efterretningstjeneste. Under flugten bliver han arresteret, og nu ser det ud til, at fortiden endelig indhenter Bernie...